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How Obamacare Tax Brings Downs the System…It's Easy

The strangest of things happened last fall when Justice John Robert, a Bush nominee of Eagle Scout quality, wrote the decision on the Affordable Care Act (AKA ObamaCare) calling it a tax.  It defined the context in no uncertain terms and gave the president of the blue team the biggest win since LBJ enslaved seniors with Medicare.

"Why John WHY!!!!!!!" the red team cried.

I still favor NSA blackmail but I am almost as likely to say these days that it's because Social Security and Medicare are taxes and ruling against the ACA tax could have caused a conundrum.

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Turns out there is a greater problem with the Supreme Court ruling, according to Investigative Journalist Ben Swann the ACA mandate, already fully blessed as a tax by our Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), was neither originated nor voted on by the House of Representative.  On this the US Constitution is pretty clear, all tax legislation must come from the house and this one came from the Senate and never saw the floor of the house.

UH OH.

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Click to Play Ben Swann Report: If Obamacare is a tax it was not legally passed 

In response to the SCOTUS decision insurance companies had no choice but to begin adhering to the mandates of the ACA and put in place the final shutdown of individual lines that did not meet the mandates required.  Simply put, the sales materials are thrown out, new claims forms have ceased to be printed, the databases have been encrypted and stored, and the last of the claims processing plans are already in full swing.  It's done and in the box.

The real problems begin shortly when 20% of our economy suddenly realizes that neither the private insurance companies nor the ACA are covering huge swaths of our population.  What happens then you ask?  We fans of Austrian Economics have a saying, "the market always finds a way to meet a demand…if we let it."

Unintended consequences like this are best explained by Hanlon's Razor: Hanlon's razor is essentially a special case of Occam's razor. Occam's razor states that, assuming equal explanatory power, the simplest solution (formally, the one with fewest assumptions) should be preferred. Assuming intent is a pretty big assumption, but we all know that (other) people are idiots.

-RationalWIKI

For the record, the red team blogged this week; Where Does Mary Burke stand on Obamacare?

My guess was just left of Medicare Part D, passed when the red team controlled the house, senate and presidency.  If you want to know why Obamacare passed try this one on for size, INERTIA.

Did Scout Roberts learn to untie the Gordian Knot?

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